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Acute, localized autoinoculable infectious disease usually acquired through sexual contact. Caused by HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI, it occurs endemically almost worldwide, especially in tropical and subtropical countries and more commonly in seaports and urban areas than in rural areas.
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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caused by Haemophilus ducreyi; do not confuse with CHANCRE, the primary lesion of syphilis
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- National Library of Medicine. Chancroid. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002602. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002602
- Chancroid. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancroid
- Chancroid. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31798